Ridiculous...ly awesome

So I am having a bizarre day and loving it. It's not even that anything is SO very strange about today, today has just been very different from my others here so far. And it's only 4:20!

The actors were given off this morning until 1:00 PM because Pirates has been going so well. The carpenters worked this morning, but Cat said they didn't really need me and since I only had a few props to fix and what not I decided to take the actors' schedule and make my fixes during the time when they were working out kinks in the show. I slept later than usual because I decided to stay up late and watch the first few episodes of the second season of LOST. When I woke up at 11, I got a call from the guy at the hardware store telling me that he'd gotten something in that I've been trying to get a hold of. So yay!

When I went into work, I made my fixes and then got call from Carol at the office telling me that a package had arrived for Props Mistress Bieberton which is how I started having things shipped to me. I went and got the package. Well, Biebs made a mistake. Biebs was supposed to order 9 fake palm tree fronds for Pirates. Biebs INSTEAD ordered 9 REAL palm tree fronds for Pirates. So ef. I freaked a little bit and then went to tell Michael the news. Needless to say, he was a little less than ecstatic about my pricely mistake, but only because I'd spend the money and not because I'd gotten the wrong thing. Turns out he'd decided to cut the fronds from the show. So now I've got 9 fronds on my hands and Michael tells me to go ask the (mean) lady at the flourist's if there's anything she can do with them. So I walk down the street looking like a total idiot with my 9 palm tree fronds until I get to the flourist who first tells me what a shame it was that I made such a dumb mistake and then tells me she has no use for them. BUT, she says, there's a couple who's getting married tomorrow and they're having a tropical themed wedding which she knows since she did the arrangements for them. Rather than giving them a call on my behalf asking them if they'd like this donation, she tells me she doesn't feel comfortable getting involved or giving me their number. However, she feels comfortable enough to tell me that they live, "somewhere behind the bowling alley in a cabin with lots of steps." So great. I take my stupid fronds and walk once again across town to the bowling alley. I go out back and stand like an idiot for a moment wondering if I should just start hollering," Anyone around here getting married?" when I see this guy pulling into a garage. So I go up and ask him if he knows about any weddings going on and he says, "Oh yeah! My son is getting married!" I explain I'm from the theater company and that we made this mistake and heard they may want some of these fronds, and he invites me up the BILLIONS of stairs to his house which I climb with palm fronds in tow. We walk into his house to find the entire bridal party posing for pictures and he doesn't say anything! So I'm just standing there, a stranger in their house, and I say, "Um, hi. Congradulations, I hear you're getting married. Would you like some fronds?" I thought it was cute, but they all just stared at me so I explained the whole thing over again and finally got some smiles, and the bride accepted the theater's donation of fronds. And everyone was happy and I didn't have to look like a tropical jerk walking through town anymore.

Next, I walked up the biggest hill in ever to the post office to mail out some postcards, and now I'm back in my cabin. Bob Scott, the gay man who cooked for us last week, is currently cooking a Thanksgiving dinner complete with a 26lb turky in the main house for all of us. I'm super stoked. Tonight is our second dress run, and tomorrow we open. That's the story of my weird day.

I made a realization sometime in the past 12 hours or so that I don't hear sirens ever out here. I don't know which is more sad, not hearing sirens (aka missing good old Philly) or realizing that I'm sad about not hearing something indicating that something bad has happened. Weird, right?